Monday, June 18, 2007

I need to get slade myself..

At the other end of the "glam rock" spectrum from Roxy Music is Slade. While both look equally ridiculous in their videos, Slade's future legacy was not slick, glammy, saxophone-playing pop bands of the 1980's. Rather, Slade was the sonic blueprint for the slick, glammy, guitar-playing pop metal bands of the 1980's.

Slade were also ahead of their time in their use of phonetic spellings in rock song titles.